The crowd at Allison Sarofim’s West Village town house got totally hosed last night—literally—when a disgruntled neighbor doused the backyard patio. It happened just as the after-party for Julia, a new drama starring Tilda Swinton, was getting into full swing. The hostess (who was also celebrating her birthday) muttered something unprintable, but then she and [...]

If Natalie Portman is used to walking into a room and having all eyes landing on her, she had some tough competition on Friday night, when art world dabbler Stuart Parr threw a party in honor of her new Web site, www.makingof.com, at his recently renovated Tribeca pad. Guests at the fête, which was co-hosted [...]

When I was in Paris for the shows there, and then in London for the Frieze Art Fair, my European counterparts were always baffled by the American obsession with Halloween. Even at the beginning of the month, we New Yorkers were already discussing what costumes to wear for the blessed holiday—will I be the techno [...]

By day the first floor is a showroom and a retail shop. By night, the black leather padded walls pulsate with techno rhythms and Moscow’s coolest kids dancing under heat lamps in what is the city’s hippest new 24-hour bar. Welcome to designer Denis Simachev’s eponymous space in Moscow’s Stoleshnikov Pereulok fashion realm. For the [...]